Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics, by Marc Lange [Book Review]

Mind 127 (506):593-602 (2018)
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Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics, by Lange Marc. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 489.

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